Ulrich Beck Quotes
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I went to Floridita on Wardour Street when I was 18. All I could afford was pumpkin soup and a glass of champagne, but it was worth it.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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We've almost been wiped out as a species many times, going back millions of years, and we've survived by reinventing ourselves and enlarging our circles of awareness, inventing new technologies and social structures.
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I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?
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Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
